PANDANUS Project  
Ocimum basilicum L. in Pandanus database of Indian plant names
 •  Pandanus Homepage  •  Database of Plants  •  Publications  •  Sanskrit E-texts  •  Seminar of Indian Studies  •
 

  Ocimum basilicum L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

Back to the list of plant names 

 
 Latin nameOcimum basilicum L.
 FamilyLamiaceae
 Identified with (Skt)barbarī, arjaka
 Identified with (Hin)bābul, bābuyitulasī
 Identified with (Tam)tirunītturu, tirunīruppaccai
 Identified with (Mal)rāmattuḷasi
 Identified with (Eng)Sweet basil, Common basil
 Botanical infoAn aromatic herb, 60 - 90 cm high, growing throughout India, leaves simple, opposite, ovate, acute, flowers white or pale purple in simple branched racemes often thyrsoid, fruits ellipsoid nutlets, black
 Search occurrencebarbarī, arjaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageOcimum basilicum L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 90)
arjaka, mfn. procuring, acquiring, L.; m. the plant Ocimum Gratissimum, L.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 722)
barbarī, f. a species of Ocimum, Bhpr.; = barbara n. and -rIka n.; N. of a river, VP.


 
(c) 1998-2009 Seminar of Indian Studies, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Development of this database of Indian plant names was made possible by the generous funding of the Grant Agency of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.